Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and DeweyFirst published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a general historical and biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers an in depth critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four main thinkers of the pragmatist movement, with reference to the theories of meaning, knowledge and conduct which have come to define pragmatism. |
Contents
Peirces Cosmology | |
Critical Remarks | |
Peirces Critique of Descartes | |
Jamess View of Thought | |
Part Three George Herbert Mead | |
Biographical Comments | |
Meads Social Behaviourism | |
Mead on Mind Self and Society | |
Mead and the MindBody Problem | |
Mead on Explanation | |
Meads Stage Theory as Explanatory | |
Critical Remarks | |
The Pragmatic Maxim | |
Peirces Educational and Religious Ideas | |
Part Two William James | |
Biographical Comments | |
Peirce and James on Truth | |
Jamess Notion of Satisfaction | |
James and the Mutability of Truth | |
General Remarks | |
Jamess Treatment of Habit | |
Meads Analysis of Symbolism | |
Part Four John Dewey | |
Biographical Comments | |
Deweys Concept of Experience | |
Critical Comments | |
Deweys Psychological Conceptions | |
Critical Comments | |
Epilogue | |
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